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Maths
- Name
- To be added
- Exam boards
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR (incl. MEI)
- Focus
- Pure, mechanics and statistics, with heavy past-paper drilling
- Teaching style
- Written profile in progress
Our tutors
Every tutor has taught A-Level for at least five years
That is the floor, not the average. We don't staff sessions with undergraduates who sat the exam recently, and we don't hand a Further Maths student to a general maths tutor. Every person teaching on Apex is a subject specialist who has taken students through a full A-Level course, start to results day, at least five times over.
It matters because A-Level teaching is not just knowing the content. It's knowing where AQA likes to hide the marks, which Edexcel question stems students misread every single year, and how to get a C-grade candidate to a B in eleven weeks without burning them out.
- Minimum A-Level teaching experience
- 5 years
- Subjects taught
- Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics
- Exam boards covered
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR
- Session formats
- Live 1-on-1 and small group, online
- Cost to be matched
- Free, 20-minute diagnostic call
How we select and vet tutors
Five stages, in this order. A tutor only appears on a student's timetable after all five are complete.
- 01
Qualification and subject check
A degree in the subject taught, or a closely related one, plus a teaching qualification or documented classroom teaching history. Maths and Further Maths are treated as separate specialisms, and so are Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Nobody teaches across a boundary they haven't taught in a school or college.
- 02
Five years of A-Level teaching, evidenced
We ask for the years taught, the boards taught, and referees who can confirm both. Tutoring GCSE for a decade doesn't count towards it. A-Level is a different job and we check for that specifically.
- 03
Enhanced DBS check
Every tutor holds a current enhanced DBS certificate before their first session with a student. We hold the certificate details on file and re-check them. If a certificate lapses, sessions pause until it's renewed.
- 04
Live teaching trial
Applicants teach a real A-Level topic to one of our subject leads, then mark a set of student answers against the actual mark scheme. We're watching for two things: can they explain a hard idea two different ways when the first way doesn't land, and do they mark like an examiner rather than like a generous teacher.
- 05
First-term review
New tutors have their session recordings reviewed and their students' progress reports read by a subject lead through their first term. Feedback from parents is read at the same time.
Meet the team
We're still finalising written profiles and headshots for each tutor. Rather than pad this page with stock photography and invented biographies, here is the roster as it currently stands by specialism. You'll be introduced to your actual tutor by name on the diagnostic call, before you pay for anything.
- Every tutor below: 5+ years A-Level teaching
- Enhanced DBS on file
- AQA, Edexcel and OCR covered
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Further Maths
- Name
- To be added
- Exam boards
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR
- Focus
- Complex numbers, matrices, differential equations and optional modules
- Teaching style
- Written profile in progress
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Physics
- Name
- To be added
- Exam boards
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR A and OCR B
- Focus
- Required practicals, multi-step calculation questions and the six-mark explanations
- Teaching style
- Written profile in progress
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Chemistry
- Name
- To be added
- Exam boards
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR A and OCR B
- Focus
- Organic mechanisms, moles and titration calculations, synoptic paper 3
- Teaching style
- Written profile in progress
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Biology
- Name
- To be added
- Exam boards
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR
- Focus
- Extended-response marking, statistics questions and practical skills papers
- Teaching style
- Written profile in progress
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Economics
- Name
- To be added
- Exam boards
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR
- Focus
- Essay structure and evaluation marks, data response, macro policy questions
- Teaching style
- Written profile in progress
How students get matched to a tutor
Nobody gets allocated by whoever happens to be free on Tuesday. Matching starts with the free 20-minute diagnostic call, which happens before you subscribe and costs nothing whether you go ahead or not.
The 20-minute diagnostic call
We talk to the student, with a parent on the call if they'd like to be. We ask what they're currently working through in class, what their last assessment looked like, which topics they'd avoid if they could, and what grade they need for their offer.
Subject and exam board first
We match to the exact specification, not just the subject. An OCR B Physics student goes to a tutor who has taught OCR B, because the practical endorsement and question style differ from AQA.
Then pace and target grade
A student sitting on a predicted B who needs an A is a different job from one who is genuinely behind and needs the C secured. We set the plan and the weekly session count around which of those it is, and that feeds into whether Essentials, Accelerate or Exam Sprint makes sense.
Then personality
This is the part agencies skip. Some students want to be pushed hard and given more work than they asked for. Others shut down under that and need someone patient who explains the same thing three ways. We ask, and we listen to how the student answers rather than how the parent answers.
If the fit isn't right, you can switch
Matching is a judgement call and sometimes we get it wrong. A tutor can be excellent and still not be the right person for your child. That is not a complaint we take badly, and you do not have to justify it at length.
Ask for a change and we'll move the student to another specialist in the same subject and exam board. Your subscription carries on at the same price, the recorded lesson library and past-paper walkthroughs stay open throughout, and no sessions are lost in the handover.
Ask any time
Email or mention it in a progress report reply. There's no minimum number of sessions you have to sit through first.
Same subject, same board
The replacement tutor teaches the same specification, so no relearning of question style or notation.
Handover notes travel
Topics covered, weak areas and the revision timetable go across to the new tutor, so the first session picks up rather than restarts.
No price change, no admin fee
Essentials stays 129 pounds a month, Accelerate 219, Exam Sprint 349. Switching costs nothing.
Exam-board training and ongoing standards
Specifications shift, mark schemes drift, and examiner reports say out loud where candidates threw marks away. Tutors who ignore that are teaching last year's exam. Our subject leads read the reports each series and push the changes out to the team.
| Exam board | Subjects covered | What we review each series |
|---|---|---|
| AQA | Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics | Examiner reports, grade boundary movement, changes to required practical assessment |
| Edexcel | Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics | Question style changes, data-response formats, mark scheme wording on extended answers |
| OCR | Maths (incl. MEI), Further Maths, Physics A and B, Chemistry A and B, Biology, Economics | Spec updates, synoptic paper structure, differences between the A and B routes |
What that looks like in practice
Termly subject meetings
Each subject group meets to go through the latest series: which topics students lost marks on, what the examiner report flagged, and what to change in how we teach it. Materials in the recorded lesson library get re-recorded when a topic's treatment changes.
Board-specific resources, not generic ones
Past-paper walkthroughs and revision materials are filed by board and specification. A student on Edexcel Maths doesn't get sent OCR papers as filler, because the formulae booklet and question conventions aren't the same.
Session observation and recording review
Sessions are recorded, which serves two purposes. Students rewatch them during revision, and subject leads sample them to check teaching quality, pacing and how mark schemes are being explained.
Progress reports as a quality check
Regular progress reports go to parents, and they go past a subject lead too. If a report is vague or the trajectory isn't moving, that's a conversation with the tutor, not a form-filling exercise.
Spec change alerts
When a board publishes a change to a specification or an assessment arrangement, affected tutors are told before the next teaching week and the revision timetables built around that topic are updated.
Talk to us about the right tutor for your subject
The 20-minute diagnostic call is free, there's no card required, and you'll come off it knowing which tutor we'd match your child with and which plan fits the timeline. If we don't think we're the right service for what they need, we'll say so on the call.
- Essentials 129 pounds/month, 2 live sessions a week
- Accelerate 219 pounds/month, 4 live sessions a week
- Exam Sprint 349 pounds/month, unlimited sessions for the final 8 weeks